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Tremble   /trˈɛmbəl/   Listen
verb
Tremble  v. i.  (past & past part. trembled; pres. part. trembling)  
1.
To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; said of a person or an animal. "I tremble still with fear." "Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke."
2.
To totter; to shake; said of a thing. "The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble."
3.
To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.


noun
Tremble  n.  An involuntary shaking or quivering. "I am all of a tremble when I think of it."





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"Tremble" Quotes from Famous Books



... a chill of horror, turned slowly round, and then he began to shake and tremble like a man in a palsy. His strength seemed to have left him, and he was incapable of action or movement, hardly even of thought. He could only see ...
— Dracula's Guest • Bram Stoker
... sounds walking in the wood, And all the spruces shiver and tremble, And the stars move a little in their courses. The ancient disturber of solitude Breathes a pervasive sigh, And the soul seems to hear The gathering of the waters at their sources; Then quiet ensues and pure starlight and dark; ...
— Lundy's Lane and Other Poems • Duncan Campbell Scott
... Queen's Crawley, Miss," the baronet said, fixing his eyes upon her, and taking off his black gloves and his hat with its great crape hat-band. His eyes had such a strange look, and fixed upon her so steadfastly, that Rebecca Sharp began almost to tremble. ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... frozen blood and my fears again afloat made me tremble through every limb; and there was something in the grief of the woman, and particularly in the voice of the man, which had no tendency to calm my agitation. I could see distinctly, for the moon shone full in at the door. He entered the barn, they ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft
... saddest of the year," or while they sat in the oak-wainscoted room, surrounded by mysterious relics that gleamed strangely forth by the flickering fire-light. The legend was wrought into the boy's mind, and he would crave, yet tremble, to hear it told over and over again, while the words were intermingled with caresses and questions as to his love. Occasionally his loving words and actions were cut short by his father's light yet bitter speech— "Get ...
— The Doom of the Griffiths • Elizabeth Gaskell


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